Is there a chance that Call the Midwife will stay on the air longer than expected?

'Call The Midwife' Season 5 Is About To Get 'Emotional'

In a report from Xpose on Tuesday, screenwriter Heidi Thomas gave hope that the British drama will not only continue for a fifth and sixth season, but there might be decades worth of new episodes after that.

"People have been saying, 'Oh, it'll all end when the pill comes in' as though no more babies were ever born again and the entire world was sterilized," Thomas said. "Call the Midwife could run for another 50 years and we could be covering the issues of today."

Check Out The New Trailer For 'Call The Midwife' Season 5

The site pointed out how the upcoming fifth year will revolve around the drug Thalidomide, which came with some children born with malformed limbs. In fact, a prosthetic model was used on set, which caused deep emotion for everyone, including Thomas.

"All our prosthetic babies turn up in boxes and we tend to drag them around during filming, but this baby was never dragged," the screenwriter said. "She was called baby Susan--we don't usually name the babies--and when she came out of the box, the whole room was silent. They handed her to me and I just looked down at this little thing in the crook of my arm--and it did choke me, it really did."

Call the Midwife Season 5 premieres in the United States on Sunday, April 3 on PBS.

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